Cell Phone Astrophotography

If you have a telescope and a cell phone with a camera you can take pictures of what you are seeing in the eyepiece of your telescope. All you really need is some time and patience.  I have only managed to take a few pictures this way so far, but I was only outside trying for about 15 minutes or so.  Once everything comes together however the pictures you can get can turn out pretty well.

Here are two photos that I got while using my phone to take photos through the telescopes eyepiece.  To do this, all you need to do is line up the camera from your phone to the eyepiece of the telescope and take the picture.  This can be a little tricky depending on the phone and even the case you have protecting your phone.  I managed to get a few good pictures of the Moon as shown above using this method. I also tried to get a picture of Jupiter and its moons, but was not entirely successful.  The reason being that once I got Jupiter in view through the eyepiece and could get the camera on the phone lined up properly, Jupiter had already moved out of the frame.  This problem could be solved if your telescope could target an object and then track with it as it moves across the sky.